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...theme, such as cranes, tigers, wise men and waterfalls. Okyo was an important transitional figure in Japanese art, as painting moved toward a more lifelike presentation. His simple brushwork and relatively muted color palate harken back to previous eras, but these screens, especially the one depicting the wise men, reveal a newfound confidence in the manipulation of space, distance and three-dimensionality. By contrast, Okyo's tiger paintings demonstrate a lingering Primitivism. Because there were no tigers in Japan at the time, scholars believe Okyo used tiger drawings, tiger skins and house cats as models, which would explain...
...Carnet" eschews panels and layouts in favor of life sketches or quick cartoons, mixed with explanatory text. The book begins in France with lovely renderings of rooftops, caf?s and the people he meets. But in the margins the text reveals an undercurrent of loneliness and anxiety. Slowly you catch on that the tour comes on the heels of a major breakup and that someone, presumably his ex-lover, has become seriously ill back in the States. (The details stay frustratingly obtuse.) In spite of this Thompson continues on to Marrakech, alone. His three weeks in North Africa result in complex...
Greenblatt posits that these publicly documented events reveal the actual man who penned “the most important body of imaginative literature of the last thousand years,” yielding a new understanding of his genius...
...first listen might reveal Sahara Hotnights as nothing but a B-league Sleater-Kinney, but after a few spins it’s clear that this band makes no pretensions to the riot-grrl ideology usually accompanying any girl-group aspiring to produce punk-pop. In short, they are playing this music without any agenda but fun, and this veneer permeates every moment. This band doesn’t need videos of themselves waterskiing in formation or cavorting playfully around a fountain to prove themselves as true to their declared image: the music of Kiss & Tell speaks for itself
...when you find people stressed out, pushed to their limits, exposed by adversity,” he says. “If you’re making a serious movie, deal with death, deal with madness, deal with the extremes of human possibility. That’s when people reveal themselves, that’s what’s fascinating...